June, '07] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 253 



Sciagraphia decorata n. sp. 



Expanse 27 mm. — General color even sordid gray with a delicate 

 pink cast to the wings. Primaries with small black flecks on basal 

 half of costa. Intradiscal line almost straight, scarcely discernible at 

 costa, becoming very evident at cubitus, whence it proceeds as a dis- 

 tinct black line to inner margin, edged on both sides by a pink shade, 

 more pronounced externally. Extradiscal line begins on costa a little 

 over one-fourth in on costa, extends with a decided inward curve 

 toward outer margin to Mi, then bends at right angles and with a 

 double inward curve ends at inner margin midway between the intra- 

 discal line and anal angle. Internally, from angle to inner margin, 

 this line is bordered by a deep shade of pink and externally by a very 

 narrow border of the same color. Basal area uniform in color. Median 

 area paler than rest of wing, with a somewhat diffuse discal spot, the 

 pink showing rather plainly along the veins. Inner half of outer area 

 deeply brown shaded;, the terminal line indicated by intervenular 

 black dots. Secondaries more heavily shaded at outer margin and 

 anal angle. A brown transverse line bordered on each side with pink 

 is indicated on inner margin; discal spot rather faint; terminal line 

 broken at the veins. Beneath, almost uniform sordid gray slightly 

 shaded outwardly; discal spots and terminal line more distinct than 

 above. 



The above describes the female type : a co-type is a little 

 worn, and while showing scarcely any pink, has the transverse 

 markings more sharply defined at the costa, and a third line 

 is present, indistinctly running through the median area round- 

 ing the discal spot externally. 



Types — Two females, one at Rutgers College and one in 

 Acad. Natl. Sci., Philada., from Dr. Skinner. 



Habitat — Stockton, Utah, June 14th and July 1st. 



Nearest to snoviata Pack., but quite different in the ground 

 color, which in decorata is distinctly gray, not brownish, as 

 are all the specimens of snoviata before me. The transverse 

 lines are also very narrow, as compared with snoviata, and the 

 angle of intradiscal line at M x is more acute, though this latter 

 mav l>e a variable feature. 



I am prepared, with the assistance of Mr. Aug. Busck in the 

 Tineina, to name any Lepidoptera, especially North American Phyci- 

 tinae and Mexican moths. — Harrison G. Dyar, V. S. National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C. 



